The Supreme Court stripped the Reconstruction Amendments of their force

Evidence

But one group that looked for an opportunity to halt black progress was the majority of the nine white justices on the US Supreme Court. In fact, following the end of chattel slavery, it was the all-white, all-male Supreme Court that eventually stripped the Reconstruction Amendments—the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth—of their power to transform the nation. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 374

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Connects to the argument-thread on how reform institutions get hollowed out — parallels Brown’s earlier point about how legal institutions saturate-systemically rather than just through bad individuals. This is the ‘objections vs answers’ crux: the objection ‘the Amendments fixed it’ is answered here.

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